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Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, with e3
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1.d4d52.c4c53.Nf3Nf64.Nc3e65.e3Nc66.Bd3
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, with e3181k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
23%42k47%
20%37k53%
20%36k50%
11%20k47%
11%20k51%
3.4%6.1k46%
3.3%6.0k41%
3%5.5k49%
1.7%3.1k48%
1.4%2.5k45%
Famous games in this line111 master games
Vidit, S. (2718) – So, W. (2780)Alekseev, Evgeny (2715) – Bacrot, Etienne (2705)Arutinian, D. (2538) – Fier, A. (2583)Kornev, Alexei (2582) – Loginov, Valery A (2509)Lein, Anatoly (2510) – Christiansen, Larry Mark (2575)Lein, Anatoly (2535) – Marjanovic, Slavoljub (2505)Arutinian, David (2556) – Toth, Ervin (2477)Li, Zunian (2405) – Eingorn, Vereslav S (2575)- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D40
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bd3
Classical
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From the archives
The Queen's Gambit appears in the Göttingen manuscript, written around 1500. It anchored world-championship matches for decades — 32 of the 34 games of Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 were Queen's Gambit Declined — and in 2020 a Netflix series watched by 62 million households emptied the world's chess-set shelves. It isn't even a real gambit: Black cannot safely keep the pawn.
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